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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three Hispanos are fitted on each side with blue glass, concealing the occupants and making it a guess in which car is the Dictator. There is no rear window and the construction suggests that a shot fired after one of these cars would simply bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Old Bolshevik & Big-Shots | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither would the Department of Agriculture. Nobody there had ever heard of sextuple calves. Consensus was that Dairyman Poth's sextuplets were probably a world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pieter Poth's Calves | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...income "in excess of $20,000"; that his wife planned to spend $60,000 making KFJZ one of the finest small stations in the U. S. in the next three years. Asked after the hearing how he thought he would fare, Radioman Roosevelt avowed: "All right, I guess. But then maybe not. My name's Roosevelt and the commission may decide to make an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: KABC, KFJ2P | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O.'s John Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McGrady Out | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...general, however, this promises to be a light year for infantile paralysis. How much this may be due to the preventive effect of the Peet-Schultz nasal spray is any epidemiologist's guess. The solution for spraying, which was developed by Dr. Edwin William Schultz and Chemist Louis Philipp Gebhardt of Stanford University, consists of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% pure common salt, 1 % pontocaine hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water. But to use this effectively is no easy trick. The careful spraying procedure advised by Dr. Peet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio of 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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